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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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1984
1h 31m
English
Horror
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Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
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Cast

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Heather Langenkamp
Nancy Thompson
John Saxon
Lieutenant Donald Thompson
Ronee Blakley
Marge Thompson
Amanda Wyss
Tina Gray
Jsu Garcia
Rod Lane
Johnny Depp
Glen Lantz
Robert Englund
Fred Krueger
Charles Fleischer
Joseph Whipp
Sgt. Parker
Lin Shaye
Teacher
Joe Unger
Sergeant Garcia
Mimi Craven
Jack Shea
Minister
Ed Call
Mr. Lantz
Sandy Lipton
Mrs. Lantz
David Andrews
Jeff Levine
Donna Woodrum
Mrs. Gray
Shashawnee Hall
Carol Pritikin
Brian Reise
Ash Adams
Surfer #1
Don Hannah
Surfer #2
Leslie Hoffman
Paul Grenier
Mrs. Gray's Boyfriend
Directed By: Wes Craven
Written By: Wes Craven

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Saint Pauly says...
4 years ago
You always think this is the best 80s horror movie of all time, then you think about the so-so acting, the bad blocking, the violent edits and remember that _The Shining_ came out four years **before** this, so then you shut up.
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Mindless_City23 says...
4 years ago
I really like this horror film. As a kid, it definitely scared me, but now I'm able to appreciate it. Like other horror films of this era, it does suspense well.
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Jimmothy.6 says...
2 years ago
I really enjoyed the atmosphere this movie achieves. It might be unintentionally created by the score, acting and filming techniques but the movie really make you feel like you are having a drug fueled nightmare or stuck in sleep paralysis. 9/10
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Dylan Grears says...
3 years ago
Going through a phase of re-watching all the horror movies of the past, mainly the classics which I’d watched as a kid but can only remember snippets. I forgot how good this film was, it was one that scared the s:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:t out of me as a kid.. a lot more than other ones. An absolute classic and deserves to be right up there in the best horror film debate! Freddy Krueger is the ultimate villain. Horror films very rarely blow me away, it’s not my favourite genre, but one I enjoy for sure.
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CONTAINS SPOILERS9/10  5 years ago
A nightmare on Elm street has always been one of my favorite horror films, it is a film I can watch over and over again. The story is very interesting, the soundtrack sounds incredible and the characters are well portraid by the actors playing them. Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger is one of the mos More
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iVcente
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  4 years ago
I liked the acting, it's above average in the horror scope. Heather Langenkamp is a great protagonist, she doesn't make stupid decisions and is not helpless, which helps a lot. This is the first movie we get to see a young Johnny Depp, he does a good job and I found it strange seeing him  More
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SkinnyFilmBuff
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  2 years ago
The third classic slasher on my list and easily the best so far. Production value was notably higher. Doing some quick Googling, it looks like estimates put the budget of this film two to three times higher than the budgets of _Halloween (1978)_ and _Friday the 13th (1980)_, and the extra money de More
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John Chard
6 years ago
Dream Attack.

The kids of Elm Street appear to be having the same bad dream, one in which a scarred faced bogeyman in a stripy jumper hunts them with knives attached to his fingers. When the dream becomes a reality for one of the kids, and the worst happens, Nancy Thompson risks all to bring the More
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